How long did it take you to become good?
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PirovacBoy
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Don't know or can't give you an exact time line as such, but let me put it this way, my definition of becoming good or time it takes to do so would be the following.
If you enjoy doing what you're doing, if you can loose yourself and let go completely whilst doing so.
If you still feel the flame after years and years of driving, the urge to sit in your Rig or chair, and turn laps and drive like it's your first day... Then you are already better then 95% of players.
Because it inherently shows and you subconsciously have proven to yourself that you are not driving to just become good,... But to master your skills and refine your driving technique.
Because being or becoming good in a racing / driving game is so so relatively unless you are the best of the best of the... You guessed it,...the best, Sir. 😂
If you enjoy doing what you're doing, if you can loose yourself and let go completely whilst doing so.
If you still feel the flame after years and years of driving, the urge to sit in your Rig or chair, and turn laps and drive like it's your first day... Then you are already better then 95% of players.
Because it inherently shows and you subconsciously have proven to yourself that you are not driving to just become good,... But to master your skills and refine your driving technique.
Because being or becoming good in a racing / driving game is so so relatively unless you are the best of the best of the... You guessed it,...the best, Sir. 😂
What I would like to know is, if you have made steady progress with time / practise?
100 hours in, I have hit a ceiling as it seems. I do not get any faster than I was with 50h in. I upgraded my equipment from a Thrustmaster T150 to a DD and drive the exact same times as before. I study the fast guys and if I copy their brake points, lines, shifting, when to accelerate... and adapt, I drive the same times as before or had those things right already before. There seems to be something not so obvious to see from outside where I get something wrong in the car handling.
Have you been at such a point too and then achieved to do further progress?
How did you solve that stagnation?
Have you reached a point where you think it is the ceiling of your natural speed, your absolute limit of skill?
100 hours in, I have hit a ceiling as it seems. I do not get any faster than I was with 50h in. I upgraded my equipment from a Thrustmaster T150 to a DD and drive the exact same times as before. I study the fast guys and if I copy their brake points, lines, shifting, when to accelerate... and adapt, I drive the same times as before or had those things right already before. There seems to be something not so obvious to see from outside where I get something wrong in the car handling.
Have you been at such a point too and then achieved to do further progress?
How did you solve that stagnation?
Have you reached a point where you think it is the ceiling of your natural speed, your absolute limit of skill?
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I've gone through cycles and it's directly connected to the amount of time I am able to play.
When you reach a certain level the progression slows and it becomes a puzzle to figure out the nuance of the thing. I've got 1600 hours in this game and I still struggle with certain things and can do others blind.
Actively working on doing the things we don't do well and trying to be better at them is big for me. It's what keeps me playing.
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Not saying I’m good, but I can relate. Started on controller. Wasn’t bad. Switched to wheel and pedals and kept wiping out. Controller I was used to being able to save things easier.
Even if all assists are shut off, I still believe there is some going on behind the scenes when using a controller.
What I was doing with my new wheel setup was braking way too hard and giving too much steering input. Essentially throwing it through the corner.
My advice is pick a track you like, and race it a lot with lower pp cars working your way up. If I’m not doing well it usually boils down to the track and knowing what turn is coming up so you can set the car up for the turn. Manual actually helps so I’d just turn that on and get used of it.
Run ABS on real or whatever it’s called and counter steering on strong, then ween yourself off of countersteering strong to weak and eventually off. You can eventually go to weak abs. The rest of the assists, I’d just shut them off.
One other thing that helps is running time trials with your ghost. Essentially trying to outdo your last lap. I should mention, try stuff like let your best lap ghost do its thing, don’t just copy it, try entering a corner slower and exiting faster. Sometimes you’ll be surprised how much of a difference it makes to be able to get on the gas sooner. You will figure things out there that is too much to explain in text. Good luck.
Even if all assists are shut off, I still believe there is some going on behind the scenes when using a controller.
What I was doing with my new wheel setup was braking way too hard and giving too much steering input. Essentially throwing it through the corner.
My advice is pick a track you like, and race it a lot with lower pp cars working your way up. If I’m not doing well it usually boils down to the track and knowing what turn is coming up so you can set the car up for the turn. Manual actually helps so I’d just turn that on and get used of it.
Run ABS on real or whatever it’s called and counter steering on strong, then ween yourself off of countersteering strong to weak and eventually off. You can eventually go to weak abs. The rest of the assists, I’d just shut them off.
One other thing that helps is running time trials with your ghost. Essentially trying to outdo your last lap. I should mention, try stuff like let your best lap ghost do its thing, don’t just copy it, try entering a corner slower and exiting faster. Sometimes you’ll be surprised how much of a difference it makes to be able to get on the gas sooner. You will figure things out there that is too much to explain in text. Good luck.
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LOL . This thread is a blast from the past. How naive my question was.
I could probably answer my own question now. I'm still not good
. I'm currently high DR B but have been up to mid DR A, but I am not that active in Sport at present so went backwards somewhat. I do the time trials though and these days, usually get in the 1-2% off WR time with my fastest ever being 21st in the world, but usually I'm in the 500-1000 range.
Technology made a big difference for me. Now I drive exclusively in PSVR2 with a nice cockpit, wheel and pedals. Currently, I'm playing around more with difference cars and completing everything in the game rather than racing. Does getting Gold in everything equate to good now? I still don't win many (any?) online races.
Once I complete everything (I'm targeting my next birthday in July) then I'll get back to online racing... Perhaps then I'll get "good" again.
You can see that in my progress there were certain leaps. Some of this was due to improving my driving experience. Getting a load-cell mod for my G29, replacing all that with Fanatec gear, then replacing my cockpit with a "serious" one.
It was in July 2023 that I got my DD GT Pro and you can see that had a massive impact on my ability to drive. Basically I climbed my way up to mid DR A over 4 months after that.
This chart stops in July 2024 as that was when I got PSVR2. I then started a new account and started all over. I haven't been doing a very good job of keeping this one up to day (I really need in import my recent races) but you can see that after 18 months of experience on the old account, that this one gained rapidly.
VR changed my perspective on the game though. Currently I am more focused on trying more things and sitting in more cars to immerse myself rather than the narrow sameness of sport.
I could probably answer my own question now. I'm still not good
. I'm currently high DR B but have been up to mid DR A, but I am not that active in Sport at present so went backwards somewhat. I do the time trials though and these days, usually get in the 1-2% off WR time with my fastest ever being 21st in the world, but usually I'm in the 500-1000 range.Technology made a big difference for me. Now I drive exclusively in PSVR2 with a nice cockpit, wheel and pedals. Currently, I'm playing around more with difference cars and completing everything in the game rather than racing. Does getting Gold in everything equate to good now? I still don't win many (any?) online races.
Once I complete everything (I'm targeting my next birthday in July) then I'll get back to online racing... Perhaps then I'll get "good" again.
I tracked my progress using GranTracker.
You can see that in my progress there were certain leaps. Some of this was due to improving my driving experience. Getting a load-cell mod for my G29, replacing all that with Fanatec gear, then replacing my cockpit with a "serious" one.
It was in July 2023 that I got my DD GT Pro and you can see that had a massive impact on my ability to drive. Basically I climbed my way up to mid DR A over 4 months after that.
This chart stops in July 2024 as that was when I got PSVR2. I then started a new account and started all over. I haven't been doing a very good job of keeping this one up to day (I really need in import my recent races) but you can see that after 18 months of experience on the old account, that this one gained rapidly.
VR changed my perspective on the game though. Currently I am more focused on trying more things and sitting in more cars to immerse myself rather than the narrow sameness of sport.
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Five years. I know the game isn't five years old. I'm not real good at it either.
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Playing from 1999...
...maybe tomorrow...
...maybe tomorrow...
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I've got slower with age.
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At what age?
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